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With the film BATMAN v SUPERMAN slated for release early next year, an online debate has erupted that pits the man in black against the man in blue. Rather than endlessly argue, we put this question to a SWARM of college students, harnessing their collective intelligence. …

With election season looming, one of the key questions facing voters is "can I trust these candidates?" And, as important as that question is to each individual, the answers are even more important to the candidates themselves. If the a…

Much has been written lately about the dangers of AI, for it’s the only human pursuit where we could design ourselves into obsolescence. After all, if an A.I. emerges that exceeds our own intellectual abilities, it could adopt objectives that don’t…

Proving that it is never too early to start campaigning for President, candidates like Hillary Clinton, Marco Rubio, and Ted Cruz have already officially thrown their hats in the ring. Of course, if it’s time to start campaigning, it’s also…

FACEBOOK or TWITTER? INSTAGRAM or SNAPCHAT? We wanted to get a quick impression of how today's college students view current social media platforms. Instead of taking a poll, or running a survey, we had a group of 30 college seniors come…

Last week we asked a SWARM INTELLIGENCE to predict the match-ups in the Sweet Sixteen round of the NCAA basketball tournament.* Of course, every individual has their own unique strategy for filling out their brackets, from favorite mascots to detailed statistical analysis, but…

STAR WARS or STAR TREK? We asked a swarm intelligence for an answer to that age old quandary. Rather than just tell you the outcome, we've posted two videos below. The first, shows the swarm intelligence as a "slime mold". We like…

JELLY BEANS IN A JAR One of the most cited examples of the Wisdom of Crowds involves a group’s collective ability to accurately guess the number of jelly beans in a jar. For each individual, however, predicting the number of…

It's called “Social Swarming” and it lets groups of online users answer questions, make predictions, and express opinions, together as a unified Collective Intelligence. The amazing thing is that Social Swarms are smart, outperforming polls, surveys, and experts on a series of…

I think about slime mold a lot. And fish. And birds. And all other social creatures that have evolved to amplify their collective intelligence by collaborating in closed-loop systems. We have many names for these natural systems, including flocks, schools, shoals, blooms, herds, and swarms. In…